CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle
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Editor:
As a member of the class of ’65,
I would like to express my opinion
concerning a rumor that is just
beginning to smolder concerning
Gene Stallings and the football
team. I have begun to hear that
people are saying that Coach
Stallings will have to beat Texas
if he hopes to keep his job at
A&M. I have also heard that the
former students are dissatisfied
with the way the football season
is going this year.
I guess that at least part of
this rumor is true. But let’s take
a few things into consideration.
Is it the fault of the coaching?
I think not! One only has to look
back to the second game of the
season and recall how a bunch
of sophomores went down to
Baton Rouge and beat a far-
superior LSU team. And have
you already forgotten the tre
mendous game A&M, played
against a far-superior Michigan
team at Ann Arbor, a game every
one says we should have won for
the way we outplayed them?
And if we overlook this season,
who can forget the 1967 team that
Coach Stallings built after be
ginning a season 0-4?
As a member of the class of
’65, I can recall having seen
Aggie coaches come and go. But
when Coach Stallings came to
A&M, I knew we finally had one
of the best. And if you don’t
believe me, ask Coach Bryant of
Alabama. I’ll just bet that he’d
love to have Stallings back as an
assistant. And, I just wouldn’t
blame Coach Stallings for going
back. I just wish I was back on
the A&M campus so that I could
drop by and tell Coach Stallings
how much I back him.
Let me encourage the student
body to encourage your coach so
that all he has to worry about
is football. With Texas and
Arkansas to face, he’s got enough
worries on his hands. With a
student body behind the coach,
his job’s just got to be easier.
Lethan Alan Barnes
Making the films with Bob stump
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College Station, Texas Friday. October 30, M
“Soldier Blue” is the true story
of the Sands Creek, Colo, massa
cre that killed, over 500 Indians
and was recorded as the bloodiest
event in the history of the Amer
ican Indian.
It is a vicious and violent show,
where blood often is used to show
the horror of death suffered by
both the Indians and the U.S.
Cavalry division that attacked.
The underlying theme of “Sol
dier Blue” reflects the conflict
individuals have with their socie
ties when they are forced to think
for themselves and develop a
philosophy which disagrees with
the principles of the society.
They become unable to function
for the system, and naturally be
come rebels from within, threat
ening the existence of the sys
tem with their presence.
Peter Strauss plays the part
of Homis in the show, accompa
nied by Candice Bergen, a beau
tiful but practical young girl
who knows the ways of the In
dians and tries to teach Strauss
the Indians are the ones with the
right to the West, and the white
man is wrong in his attempt to
banish the Indian from his own
lands.
Strauss is a private whose
company is ambushed by Indians
and he and Candice Bergen are
the only survivors. They begin
the 100-mile trek to the fort they
were headed to. Strauss is in
furiated with hate for the Indian
by the death of his comrades,
and is filled with thoughts of
virtuous revenge and glory for
his country.
As the movie progresses and
they draw closer to their destina
tion, Miss Bergen is able to show
Strauss why his beliefs are not
right, and he begins to question
in his own mind the validity of
his mission to “make the West
safe for white people.”
The show climaxes when the
stubborn division commander
gives the order to attack the In
dian village at Sands Creek, de
spite the fact the Indians offer
to talk peace.
The cavalry rides gallantly in
to the village brandishing swords
and rifles, and proceeds to kill
every Indian they can find.
Women are shown being raped
by the soldiers, then having their
bellies cut open. Children are
impaled on pointed stakes stick
ing up from the ground and left
to w r i t h until they bleed to
death. One squaw is very vividly
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beheaded by a horse-mounted
soldier.
Strauss is appalled by the
atrocities he sees, and pulls one
of the children from a stake and
lays her in the lap of the com
mander, who is taking pot shots
from a rocking chair. For this,
he is arrested.
When the massacre is over,
Strauss is marching off with the
rest of the column, but is chained
behind a wagon, imprisoned for
having tried to stop the massa
cre. Candice Bergen chooses to
stay with the surviving members
of the tribe, mostly old men and
women who managed to run
away and hide during the mas
sacre.
As Strauss is shown being drug
out of sight behind the wagon,
their eyes meet for an instant,
and a look of compassion and
understanding passes from her
to him. They part with the reali
zation that she was able to help
him to find himself and learn
what it is to seek his own des
tiny. He has discovered from her
that the right of self-determina
tion belongs to each individual
and to each nation of peoples.
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water conference
A&M will host the 15th annual
“Water for Texas Conference”
Nov. 23-24.
Dr. Jack R. Runkles, director
of A&M’s sponsoring Water Re
sources Institute, announced the
theme for this year’s meeting is
“Water Development and the
Quality of the Environment.”
Speakers include water special
ists from throughout the nation,
Dr. Runkles said.
He said topics range from
“Vegetation, Runoff and Sedi
ment Yield Relationships” to
“Impact of Water Development
on Ecology of River Systems,”
“Systems Analysis in Water
Resource Management,” “Social
Well Being and Water Develop
ment” and “The Politics of Water
Development.”
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